tip for dealing with audio mixing in movies

https://sh.itjust.works/post/9738626

tip for dealing with audio mixing in movies - sh.itjust.works

common complaint about movie audio is ‘the speech is too quiet and the action is too loud’. this can be resolved with dynamic range compression or normalization. ffmpeg provides a normalization filter called dynaudnorm [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#dynaudnorm] which u can use in mpv via --af=“dynaudnorm”.

Yes this has always been annoying with videos in Linux. Pipewire seems to be better about it and there are ways to mitigate it

forum.endeavouros.com/t/…/22315

[Tutorial] Volume Normalization on PipeWire

Hello all, those who like to watch a lot of videos on the internet, especially on Youtube, probably know the problem that apparently 99% of the Youtuber or creators of the videos suffer from ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Not only that mostly thumbnails show the following content in principle: But in addition, the sound of the videos is mostly oversaturated with loud screams, or sounds, or whatever that are sometimes more or sometimes less extra overdriven. Now I don’t r...

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Not sure I follow, I don’t think this problem is inherent to Linux. Just the solution described uses Linux.
Other operating systems have more system wide optimizations to compensate for audio normalization
VLC has pretty solid normalization settings.
When I finally got a center channel in my audio setup, suddenly dialog/speech was no longer too quiet. Game changer.

This was about to be my response. Sometimes, when a 5.1 surround mix is forced into stereo output, it causes the ‘speech’ channel to sound quieter than it should.

Try sticking to non-surrounds sources OP if you don’t have surround setup

thanks i’ll try it out if I remember to
Does anyone know of a way to make this work with Jellyfin?
you can use ffmpeg to apply the filter to the file itself and then just distribute the result